The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-28

Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw
counties in Michigan. Large forces
of men are lighting the fires in Hough-
ton county. The weather continues
dry and hot, and the whole country for
many miles along the lake shore, as
well as the lake itself, is involved in
clouds of smoke.
john b. Bates, a wealthy Bos-
tonian, was called upon on the goth by
a young man who entered the library,
and, saying that he was . Pinkerton
detective, demanded hush money for a
'secret" of Mr.. Bates. The latter
ordered the scamp to leave, whereupon
he drew q revolver and threatened to
shoot. Mr.. Bates suddenly jumped
into the hall and fastened the door,
while he summoned help. In the
meantime the blackmailer escaped
through an open window. Ten ar.
rested Bald Knobbers were taken to
Ozark, Missouri, on the Goth, on the
charge of having beaten a farmer of
Christian county named Swearlngen,
with hickory sticks, one night last
July. Thomas O'Donnell. n barkeeper,
wa3 shot dead by the city marshal of
Palestine, Texas, on the evening of the
10Th, O'Donnell was resisting ar
rest for beating his fa~ther-in-law.
Great fires are reported neal Cheb.
oygan, Michigan, and in the Black
River district of Wisconsin. Near Che
boygan, on the goth. 100000 feet of
lumber belonging to Sibley 81 BarrInger
was destroyed. Crystal Falls, a small
mining town, was reported In danger.
Reports have been received in the
City OF Mexico from the regions of
Northern Mexico recently visited by
earthquakes. At Bahispe 'no habita-
BILE house was left standing.n Sixty
persons were killed and many fatally
injured. During the afternoon and
night of the day following there were
eighteen additional shocks. 1t wa
thought the number of bodies dug out
of the ruins would reach $50. A vol.
canlc eruption occurred in the noun
tains neal Javos, flames bursting from
the summit and boulders being thrown
up.
The country around Elgln, llli-
nois, is suffering from drought. 1t is
said that unless rain falls within a
week ''tbe farmers Will be obliged to
FODDER" 1t is reported that rain is
greatly needed in Minnesota and Da-
kota, especially in the Red River
Valley, but no serious damage has
yet been done to wheat. In other
sections it is feared that the harvest
will fall from 80 to so per cent. below
the average.
AT Reading, Penna., on the 2lst,
| INra nly IahoI mhn Eil1od hio hFnfhar
Charles a year ago and was acquitted
because, in the opinion of the jury,
he was insane, was discharged from
prison, a committee appointed by the
court to inquire into his mental con-
dition having decided that he is ''now
perfectly sane."
Michael Hammond, a conductor on
the Delaware and Hudson Railroad,
was killed while moving out OF the
depot at Parsons, Penna., on the after
noon of the 2lst. He noticed a oma
and little boy on the track in front of
the engine and called to them to get
off, s'but the more he cried out to them
the more bewildered they became"
Hammond jumred from the car, ran
along the track, and finally pushed
them down the emankment. In doing
so he staggered back and fell under the
cars. The tow-boat Charles Brown.
No. 2, was sunk by a snag about 20
miles below st. Louis on the morning
of the 21st, and one of her crew was
drowned.
"A telegram from Bethlehem, Pa,
says that the Salvation Army has for
some time past been marching through
the streets there every evening yell
ing and singing" Collisions with The
police were frequent. Finally, on the
evening of the 22d, ''while parading
noisily," the captain and II officer of
the Salvationists were arrested. On
the morning of the 29i they were COM
mittsd to jail sin default of fines,
which the Justice imposed upon them
for d~isorGerly conduct and profanity"
The Army had been previously notified
not to parade on the streets. A Saliva
ton Army meeting in Kansas City on
the 22d was broken up by the police.
Nineteen members were arrested.
Two more cases of yellow fever
have appeared in Key West. The first
patient, a man named Baker, IS dead,
and his wife and sister are now sick.
He lived ON the mainland, but had
been. visiting in Key West. None or
the persons attacked had been out OF
the State recently enough to have
brought the seeds of the disease from
abroad" The authorities at Tampa,
the nearest point to Key West by sea,
have established a strict quarantine.
John Croft, Cheed Croft, Abra-
ham Ussery and John Ussery were ar
rested nea Luling, Texas, on the 22d,
on suspicion of being concerned in the
recent train robbery on the lnterna.
tioaal and Great Northern Railway.
They were taken to San Antonio and
lodged IN jail,
The assurances on the property
destroyed by the fire at Lake Linden,
Michigan. aggregate $4,000 Two
fatalities occurred at the fire: John
Casey was burned in q barn, and An
drew Uolaberger had his skull crushed
by a falling wall. The Reade Paper
Company's mills, near Versailles.
Connecticut, were burned on the 22d.
Loss, $4,000, insurance, $4,000 The
villags of Hawthorne, about is miles
south of Superior, Wisconsin, has been
destroyed by the forest fire in its vlcln-
ity. No lives were lost. The drought
in the upper peninsula OF Michigan
continues, and the forest fires are still
raging there, threatening many villages
and towns. A large saw mill, near
Lake City, was burned on the 2lst-
Loss, $50 GOT, 1t is reported that the
powder house of the Odanat mine in
the woods near Hurley, Michigan, was
reached by the fames on the 2lst and
blown up, with four tons of powder.
No lives were lost. A round house at
another NINE was destroyed.
"A milk dairy OF eighteen cows,
fourteen OF which were infected with
pleuro-pneumonia, was discovered on
the 23d in the northwestern section of
Baltimore. All the animals were killed,
and the stable will be burned.
During "A school exhibition on the